So measles kills less children than covid kills 70+ year-olds? What a weird comparison.
Some actual numbers: 500,000 cases/yr and 500 deaths out of ~3-4 million infections after good nutrition, before vaccination.
People on one side say "1 in 1000 that's a lot of preventable deaths" and that's spin because it's of cases not infections. Other side says 1 in 8000 die - that's a rounding error it's so small.
But not just looking at deaths, 1 out 6 getting sick enough to go to the doctor is pretty large. That's a lot of people in that group who will be permanently scarred externally and probably internally as well.
It's almost totally preventable with a vaccine - now whether this particular vaccine is safe and should be given is a different matter, but absolutely you should take a safe vaccine for measles if you can.
As RFK says in this article itself, the deathrate had already fallen off 98% due to sanitization and modernization.
Measles isn't harmless...but it's less harmful than Covid, at least among children.
EDIT: To clarify, measles is less harmful in children than covid is in all age ranges, not just children.
So measles kills less children than covid kills 70+ year-olds? What a weird comparison.
Some actual numbers: 500,000 cases/yr and 500 deaths out of ~3-4 million infections after good nutrition, before vaccination.
People on one side say "1 in 1000 that's a lot of preventable deaths" and that's spin because it's of cases not infections. Other side says 1 in 8000 die - that's a rounding error it's so small.
But not just looking at deaths, 1 out 6 getting sick enough to go to the doctor is pretty large. That's a lot of people in that group who will be permanently scarred externally and probably internally as well.
It's almost totally preventable with a vaccine - now whether this particular vaccine is safe and should be given is a different matter, but absolutely you should take a safe vaccine for measles if you can.